Area Woman Talks Politics

That coming from an independent voter and current-Obama-supporter, so take it for what it’s worth. The main reason why I support Obama is because he seems different from the scores of politicians out there who are pounding on podiums and getting red in the face.

I don’t want someone shouting at me about what’s wrong with America. I want someone sitting down with me and saying, “Okay, here are the problems, and here’s what I think we all can do about them.” I feel Obama is the only serious candidate this entire election who gives off that vibe. But I digress…

You know as well as I do that Republicans only picked a woman VP to try and seduce the disenfranchised, Hillary-supporting women. It’s not about the best candidate for the job, and that annoys me. And that’s not me judging her, that’s her in her first speech saying, “It was rightly noted in Denver this week that Hillary left 18 million cracks in the highest, hardest glass ceiling in America. But it turns out the women of America aren’t finished yet, and we can shatter that glass ceiling once and for all.”

Let’s say McCain, a man who seems to be in good health but is 72 years of age, dies in office. This woman whose greatest political claim to fame is governing the state of Alaska for two years will be the President of the United States. No, thank you.

And don’t even get me started on all the crap they’re saying. I know it is a politician’s job to lie, but come on:

PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

TRUTH: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”

PALIN: “The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars.”

TRUTH: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama’s plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain’s plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

MCCAIN: “She’s been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America’s energy supply … She’s responsible for 20 percent of the nation’s energy supply. I’m entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America,” he said in an interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson.

TRUTH: McCain’s phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she’s no more “responsible” for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin “got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.”

TRUTH: Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor’s election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: “We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin.”

TRUTH: George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

In closing, I can’t say it any better than Sen. Clinton did during the DNC (and I don’t even like Clinton): “We don’t need 4 more years of the last 8 years.”

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I respect your opinions to be all for dems only, but I just have to say that for half of obama's statements there are TRUTHs that could be posted in reply. So I guess I'm just saying, that no one is perfect, basically. I'm not saying that to be all pro republican, cause I don't even know who I'm going to be supporting, I just feel like you're putting the democrats on a pedestal so to speak.

I'm not at all for democrats. I am a conservative-minded independent, actually. I'm sorry that it came across to you otherwise; I'm simply venting my frustrations about Palin, not putting democrats on a pedestal.